Team Leader - Stockport, United Kingdom - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Band 6 Team Leader

30 hours

Our complex care team is made up of
- the children's continuing care team, which provides respite in the home and school setting for children with complex needs.
- the Long Term Ventilation Team which provides packages of care in the home for children who require ventilation to assist their breathing.

Swanbourne gardens which is a 4 bedded respite unit that provides overnight respite for children with complex needs.
Palliative and end of life care.

As a team we strive to provide the children we support with a high standard of care.

As a band 6 team leader working within the team you would be mainly responsible for the delivery of care at Swanbourne Gardens
- our unique 4 bedded respite unit. Alongside this you may be required to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care in the child and families own home or in school / nursery. You would be at the forefront of teaching and assessing the competencies required for the staff to deliver day to day care for the children with complex health needs, this will include interventions such as care and management of tracheostomies, gastrostomies and ventilation support. You would be expected to provide supervision and appraisals for the junior staff and ensure all mandatory training is up to date. As a band 6 we would expect you to role model the trusts value and behaviour framework when working within the team.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
NHS pension scheme membership
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
NHS Staff discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Salary finance for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
Stockport Credit Union

- for local financial advice

To carry out the nursing process for complex children in the community. Including assessment, planning and implementing patient care.

To deputise for the Band 7 Deputy Matron based at Swanbourne Gardens.

To line manage junior staff.

To ensure all competencies are up to date for all staff to maintain safe delivery of care.

To complete the rota for staffing and children attending Swanbourne Gardens to ensure all commissioned packages are met.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.